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If this was Microsoft they would have been torn apart by now, those SOBs get torn apart for some crazy bugs no one cares about yet Apple has been screwing over some of its customers quite sometime with a piece of software that doesn't work, where are the complaints?

Bootcamp on certain 24" iMacs (ones with outdated nVidia 7300/7600 videocards) doesn't work, in fact it hasn't been working since the launch of the iMac last year! Get this, Apple has been screwing over its customers with a buggy piece of crap software for the past year and no one has complained about it until now via this typical Apple fanboy blog post (typical in the sense it gives no sources and says it's a secret) showing off just how 'content' iMac users are.

I wouldn't tolerate it of Microsoft if my system didn't support software it should, heck, I can barely tolerate the fact that some games from the Windows 98 days don't run on Vista. But you know, Bootcamp is unimportant, the very reason those damned IntelMacs exist is just an extra thrown in. It's only a 'beta' version of the software which magically exempts it from working for about a full year.

This just goes without saying, too many Mac owners are too busy justifying their purchase that they don't dare complain about their faulty products. No one who uses a Windows machine would be that forgiving of Microsoft and rightly so, about time Apple fanboys got with the program and stopped allowing Apple from pushing them around. Theres no pride in owning a Mac, especially if one of its key features is stuffed.

You know what? Let me highlight the fact, look at the comments section,

You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Those white iMacs were actually quite a bit better than the current ones which have a glare-plagued screen and weak graphics. Come back, come back!

Well Wait for the xMac announcement in November.

Anyone know if the current iMacs have MXM slots either.

The name of the update strikes me as odd simply because Apple has never admitted to using the MXM card slot AFAIK.

It may be a MXM slot but you need a EFI rom on the video card for it to work.

I was wondering the same thing. Anyone know if an upgrade is possible? Maybe 8600GT 512MB DDR2 from MXM based notebooks.

So the first five posts is not about the fact Apple has not repaired a fatal software problem since almost about a year ago, it's either about how bad the new iMacs are (i.e. buy the old crappy one that doesn't actually run Bootcamp!), how we should wait for another rumoured announcement for another piece of crap that will probably have plaguing issues of its own, and the next three is all about 'awww, I wanna upgrade my Mac' to which I have the simple response of YOU CAN'T!

Naturally after all that crud theres something about how bad Apples behaviour has been

That's really poor that it's taken over a year to resolve that kind of issue and yet again graphics card related. They seriously need to think about hiring people who know what the hell they're doing when it comes to graphics. Carmack from id said they had to inform Apple's team about graphics-related problems in their software and there's been quite a few driver problems lately.

Does this go on? Nope, back to 'I wanna upgrade my shiny computer... oooh pretty liiiights!'

ati and nvidia used to code there own mac drivers maybe they should restart that and come out with video cards with efi roms for mac systems.

Now for a strange phenomenon, a Mac user actually complaining about his systems obvious failings,

I upgraded to the new iMac 24" aluminum just to run Boot Camp beta, and to my surprise I'm still having issues. While I can run Vista with good performance scores, I can't get the drivers to go up to full 1900x1200 resolution (max in Vista is something like 1900x1080!). I've tried everything, including installing ATI's Catalyst drivers; I'm assuming this will be fixed with Leopard. Rather, I'm hoping.

Naturally to wrap it up we have more 'I wanna have nice graphix cards like teh evil Micro$oft users!!1!!1!'

This was why I asked about MXM in Alu iMacs. If Apple is using MXM in all iMacs (and they could use them in MBP / Mac Minis in the future) then pretty soon there would be enough people with the slot and EFI to justify a third party card.

They use custem heat pipes and Heat sinks.

So what was the title of the article in question? "Apple's iMac MXM Updater to cure iMac's Boot Camp woes". It would seem Apple prides itself on having an idiot customer base.

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Posted By: Ahmed - Category: Macintosh, Parts, Proprietary

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How Easy a Mac is

February 8th 2007 10:10

So I read in the February issue of ‘Macworld’ of yet another one of those ‘from PC to Macintosh’ migrants. Jason Snell (editor) speaks of how his retired ex-executive uncle decided to move over to Mac claiming that the reason he wouldn’t move of past was because that Windows based software would not run on Mac’s and since the Mac’s switch to Intel CPU’s it has become more efficient to run Windows applications natively on OSX.

But why would his uncle move to Mac? Apparently because OSX is so much ‘easier’ to work with than Windows. The Mac Fanboys really, really, need to get their heads out of the sand if they really want to move on and properly challenge Microsoft’s dominance, there ‘once upon a time, happily ever after’ stories just doesn’t cut it, ignoring the facts does not make everything better.

Clue me in Mr. Snell, in what ways is OS X easier to use than Windows? For general tasks such as web browsing or word processing it is pretty much the same as Windows. Simply open the web browser or word editor of choice and get to it, the exact same on OSX and Windows.

What about the slightly more complex tasks? Well Mr. Snell likes to brag about how much easier it is to work with digital photographs on the Mac, my dear Mr. Snell, so what? If you purchase a digital camera worth its salt you will get software that will allow you to manage your photographs just as easily on any platform, that includes OS X and Windows.

Jason concludes with the usual happily ever after, that the usual excuses for not using a Mac don’t exist anymore, that all Windows software will run on Mac and all the rest. Well that’s true, and I am just as excited as he is, if not more down to earth on the cold hard facts. I do hope Apple can start taking more and more of the market as time goes on, and I hope at some point down the line it can take a good 50% of the market, it will improve competition on both sides and increase the overall quality products.

Ironic too that many of Mac OS X's major (inherent) advantage of it being ‘more secure’ than Windows will also fade away as more people begin to exploit the operating system.

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Posted By: Ahmed - Category: PC, Macintosh, apple, Proprietary, Microsoft, i, Apple

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Misconceptions about Microsoft and Apple

February 4th 2007 13:32

There are many myths surrounding the Apple vs. Microsoft war, trying to put Microsoft down, myths such as Macintosh running OSX being more stable than PCs running Windows or Microsoft copying Apple. Surprising how misguided these attacks are, but I guess we all need someone to hate.

Here are some popular myths about Apple, Microsoft and the General PC VS Macintosh debates that I will go through logically and let you make up your own mind on where you stand.

Microsoft Copied Apple by Adding a GUI to Their Operating System (Incomplete story)

I know many people like to yell out ‘Microsoft started copying Apple from the beginning with a GUI’, well there are two things wrong with this claim. First and foremost is that including a GUI with an operating system was the next required update for all commercial level operating systems and software as a whole. If someone created a program that used a GUI to work on a Macintosh would that person be copying Apple?

Secondly, more importantly, it is not telling the whole truth, which is that Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, went on a tour to Xerox PARC which had already created a prototype machine with a GUI and was ‘inspired’ to do the same.

That’s the founding myth all ‘Microsoft copies Apple’ claims find their origin in.

Microsoft Copied Features From Apple’s OSX and Included Them in Vista (blatantly false)

Well this is nothing short of a joke, I’d say Apple copied Microsoft with OSX. From an extremely early Alpha preview of Vista (then codenamed Longhorn) shows features that had not even been announced for OSX.

Microsoft did go public with many features they were planning on putting into Vista way before Apple said anything of ‘similar’ features in OSX, there’s more evidence to suggest Apple copied Microsoft than vice versa. The only way Microsoft could have copied OSX with Vista would be if Microsoft had spy’s working inside Apple computers who found out about the features OSX was getting and subsequently reported back to HQ.

What is more likely is that Apple saw Microsoft showing off prototypes of features in Vista and quickly created similar software and rushed it to market before Microsoft released Vista, the trade off here is that some features Apple likes to claim Microsoft stole from them is underdeveloped. Example? Apples much hyped dashboard that came out first in Mac OSX 10.4 was already in early builds of Windows Vista in the form of the side bar. Whichever way you choose to look at it Microsoft, not Apple, showed off the concept of a side bar/dashboard first.

Intel Based Mac’s are ‘Optimised’ to squeeze more out of Dual Core Intel CPUs (blatantly false)

Lets take a fair look at both, some folks managed to crack the x86 OSX build intended for Intel based Macintosh computers so that it would run on a regular PC. As such we can (unfortunately for Apple) be able to have a direct comparison between Macs with OSX and Windows with OSX, fair game, the only thing we can say is perhaps the OSX running on Windows will have a few disadvantages running on hardware it is not ‘optimised’ for.

Well guess what? OSX, the Apple created operating system, runs faster on a $300 PC than ‘most mac minis’ (you’ll need to scroll down to the benchmarks), you can compare the score Mac Mini’s get to the 44.44 the PC got. So much for optimised.

OSX is More Stable Than Windows (partially true)

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised the so-called ‘stability’ of Macintosh computers thus far have not come from any advanced engineering on Apples behalf but a purposeful throttling of hardware on Apple computers simply so they run more stable. The question here is, do you want to pay premium on a computer that will run at 90% capacity so that it won’t theoretically crash once a week? How often have PC’s crashed on you and what were you doing when they did? Where you doig something you could do on a Macintosh?

From my own experience my PC crashes on me sporadically when I am pushing it hard.

For instance while playing some kinds of games I sometimes alt-tab between that and other programs. This doesn’t happen with all games, so far only a very few number of games do this to me very rarely, Elders Scrolls Oblivion is the most likely to crash while I play it in a window, other games such as Prey, Quake 4 or Half-Life 2 run smooth as butter whatever *else* I might be doing.

Please keep in mind as of writing the most technologically advanced game on Macs is ‘Prey’, which is, even if I do say so myself, nothing compared to Elders Scrolls Oblivion.

Other things I do is run DreamWeaver, Photoshop and fireworks simultaneously while Nero Vision is busily converting video files to burn onto a DVD. Not saying this to brag, some people do more, but I’m simply saying I can do all that without fear my operating system will crash on me.

Sure it crashes, but so what? I’m sure if you subject a Macintosh to do several things simultaneously it would crash too.

The debate about which is more stable is actually one that is subject to opinion, I don’t know who came up with the idea and I’m sure there is some credibility to the claims of the millions. We cannot prove one way or the other through an error free trial, software wise you cannot put a Macintosh through the same rigors as a PC.

If the claim is true I’d hazard to guess it is because Apple has put some form of throttling upon the hardware to ease up hardware strain, it seems to be the only plausible theory for the inconsistent benchmarks in osx86 Mac vs. PC.

Mac OSX is ‘more secure’ than Windows Vista (partially true)

The only reason for this is the low user base of OSX users compared to Windows users, not many are interested in breaking through Mac OSX’ security. Virus writers and hackers can and will break down any and all security measures you create, the trick is to keep up which Microsoft strives to do, not that it succeeds all the time. However in saying that I can safely say that using a free third party firewalls I have yet to be hacked or a virus is yet to be downloaded onto my PC.

If I wanted a virus to run on my PC I’d go to stupid sites advertising free porn and illegal software downloads. Mac users don’t because OSX hardly supports the illegal software and they are too busy masturbating over their hawt Macs. Windows users on the other hand need porn because PCs look butt ugly and they all are dirty pirates (just joking ^_^).

*Further Reading: 'Is Apple copying Microsoft?'

In Conclusion (Please don't flame me, hear me out… first)

Throughout this article the reader may assume I am going on an anti-Apple rampage, I’d just like to say that I’m not, I am not a Microsoft fanboy nor am I payed by Microsoft or compensated in anyway (no really, I mean it). I have plenty of criticism for Vista and by many I mean heaps and heaps, heck, I’m actually very convinced at this point in time I’ll be purchasing a Mac book next, not a PC and will not be buying Vista at all.

What I have been trying to do through this article is dispel some common myths that have been getting on my nerves.

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